Trivia: Where did the first battle of the American Revolution take place?
Wilmington, North Carolina
Ticonderoga, New York
Williamsburg, Virginia
Lexington, Massachusetts
The correct answer is Lexington, Massachusetts
So why is this answer correct? : “The shot heard round the world,” a phrase coined by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, was fired on April 19, 1775, during the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It occurred just after dawn during a skirmish between about 700 British soldiers and 500 members of the Colonial militia, marking the start of the Revolutionary War. The site is now part of the Minute Man National Historical Park.